Estimating relationships among FDI inflow, domestic capital, and economic growth using the threshold error orrection approach

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 6-15

  Chang, Shu Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric adjustment; Economic growth; Foreign direct investment; Threshold error correction model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749237270     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/REE1540-496X460101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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